The elusiveness of tolerance : the "Jewish question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars /
Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. T...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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Edición: | [Open access ebook edition] |
Colección: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;
no. 117. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. The ideology of tolerance failed because of its internal contradictions. |
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Notas: | Reprint. Originally published in 1997 |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index |
ISBN: | 9781469656489 1469656485 |